Wilkins v. Bancroft

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

Joseph C. Bancroft filed a bill in chancery against T. B. Wilkins, Edwin C. Wilkins, Dr. Verner S. Holmes and Sydney Franklin for equitable relief. It averred that the complainant and defendants, except Franklin, purchased from F. E. Rogers a parcel of land in McComb City for the sum of $15,000, each paying his pro rata share. It charged that they agreed that title would be placed in the name of T. B. Wilkins in trust for the benefit of himself and the others as tenants in common, and that title was in fact taken in T. B. Wilkins’ name although the purchase price…